The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-20

Receipts same day last year. 1888 1850
FINANcIAL-Money is in very active demand,
with hardly enough to meet all wants.
Domestic Ercl0nge-Easy. Banks and bank
ers are buying sight drafts at "a per cent dis
count and selling at Is per cent discount to par.
Foreign Erchdnge-The market is firm, but
steady. Commercial demand. 81 50; sixty days,
81 s015; ninety days 81 794; francs, Paris and
Havre commercial sixty days, SIS 112; Swiss,
IS 49, marks, sixty days, 94sS.
SECURITIEs-The market is lifeleSs, but partly
because the offerings are so light. All desirable
stocks and bonds would bring full prices if for
sale. There is some inquiry for city bonds.
STOCKS. AND BoNDs-City Bonds-Atlanta 6
per cent long date, 10s bid, 10 asked; Atlanta
per cent 11S bid, 121 asked; Augusta per
cent long date, 107 bid, 40 asked: Augusta is
long date, 10S bid, 40 asked; Columbus per
cent 100 bid, 105 asked; Macon per cent
iii bid, liz asked; new Savannah 5 per cent
January coupons, 1917 bid, 1902 asked; new
Savannah per cent, February coupons, 1914
bid, 1014 asked.
State B ,nds-Georgia new Is, 1889, 1O1 bid,
102 asked; Georgia new 41ss, 106 bid, 106s4
asked; Georgia { per cent gold quarterly cou-
pons, 1854 bid, 1861 asked; Georgia per cent.
coupons January and July, maturity 1896, 100
bid, 121 asked.
RAILROAD Stocks-Central common, ex-divi-
dend 119 bid 100 asked Augusta and Savan-
nah per cent guaranteed, ex-dividend 1870 bid
i39 asked; Georgia common, 1893 bid, POI
asked; Southwestern per cent guaranteed
ex-dividend 124A bid, 125ls asked; Central s
per cent certificates, ex-interest 9914 bid, 9934
100 bid, Ill asked; Atlanta and West Point s
per cent certificates, ex-interest 101 bid, 1902
asked
Railroad Bonds-Savaunah, Florida and
Western Railway Company general NOR gage .
per cent interest, coupons October, Ill bid,
112 asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage
consolidated Z per cent, coupons January and
July, maturity 1897. III bid, 112 asked;
Central consolidated mortgage per cent,
coupons January and July, maturity 1893
Ilo4 bid, III asked; Georgia railroad IS, 1897,
106 bid, 106 asked; Mobile and Girard second
mortgage indorsed per cent coupons January
and July, maturity 1889, 104 bid, los asked;
Montgomery and Eufaula fir mortgage 6 per
cent. Endorsed by Central railroad, 10S bid
100 asked; Marietta and North Georgia first
mortgage, so years, per cent, 100M bid, 10111
asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta first
mortgage, 1l019 bid, 111l6 Asked Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta second mortgage, 109
bid 110l5 asked; Western Alabama second
mortgage Endorsed per cent. 106 bid, 107
asked; South Georgia and Florida Endorsed,
1lS bid, 100 asked South Georgia and Florida
second mortgage, ia bid, ll6 asked; Augusta
and Knoxville first mortgage per cent, 11115
bid, 11216 asked; Gainesville, Jefferson and
Southern first mortgage guaranteed, 115 bid,
1854 asked Gainesville, jefferson and South
ern not guarantee /. lib asked; Ocean
Steamship 8 per cent bonds, guaranteed by
Central railroad, 103A bid, 1929 asked; Gaines
vile, jefferson and Southern second mortgage
guaranteed 113 Asked Columbus and Rome
first mortgage bonds, Endorsed by Central rail
road, 1906 bid. 107 asked; Columbus and
Western 6 per cent guaranteed, 100 bid, 10
asked; City and Suburban railway first mort
gage per cent, 107 bid, 10S asked.
Bank Stocks-Nominal. Southern Bank of the
State Of Georgia, 1893 bid, 2o2 asked; Mer-
chants National Bank, 1852 bid, 1853 asked;
Savannah Bank and Trust Company % bid,
100 asked; National Bank of Savannah 100 bid,
12i asked; Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Com
pany, 10Y bid, los asked.
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock, ex-
dividend. 20 bid, 901I asked; Mutual Gas Light
stock, 20 bid 23 asked.
smoked clear rib sides, 9Lc; shoulders,
none; dry salted clear rib Sides sac; long clear,
6ssc; bellies, SIC; shoulders, none; hams, 13c.
BAGGING AND TIEs-MarBet steady. We
quote: Bagging--2I4 lbs, S61S14c; lbs, $50
nc; IA rs, 7GD714c, according to brand and
quantity. Iron ties-Arrow and other brands,
none; nominal, 81 25 per bundle, according TO
brand and quantity Bagging and ties in retail
lots fraction higher.
BCTTER-Market steady; choice Goshen, gle;
gilt edge, 220o25c creamery, SOC.
CABBAGE--AIarket bare; too high TO handle;
nominally, Northern. 11@12c; imported, 13@l4c.
CHEEsE-Alarket steady; fair demand. we
quote, 11O14c.
CoFFEE-The market is higher. We quote:
Fancy, 22c choice, 21c; prime, 2Ol9c; good, 2Oc;
fair, l9lsc; ordinary, 1890; common. lsc.
DRIED FRUIr--Apples, evaporated, n1bc;
pc led, 11sc. Peaches, peeled, zoe; unpeeled,
5@7c Cmrants. &c. Citron, &c
Dry GooDs-The market Is very firm, stock
small; demand exceeds manufacture
and further advances are looked for
We quote Prints, 4lJ6c Georgia brown shirt
ing, 81. SIC; rs do, Size; "A brown sneeting,
6lec; white osnaburgs, slf@9Isc; checks, GAO
&C; yarns 8jc for best makes; brown dr..irSs,
e@s@1sc